Jan 13, 2010A jointly established shelter by UN and Afghan Voices of Women has brought a glimmer of hope to many women who face domestic violence in Afghanistan. The refuge not only helps them find justice, but also provides employment opportunities and training in tailoring, carpet weaving and literacy.
[Afghanistan]
[South Asia]
[Domestic Violence]
[Gender]

Jan 20, 2010According to a new UN report, Afghans paid $2.5 billion in bribes over the past 12 months, equivalent of almost one quarter of legitimate GDP. Experts feel that the emergence of criminal graft is bearing political, economic and even security consequences.
[Development]
[Afghanistan]
[Governance]
[South Asia]

May 06, 2013The United Nations emergency relief arm has warned that population displacement could surge amid Government military operations and ongoing fighting between rival armed groups in northern Pakistan, near the Afghan border.
[India]
[Afghanistan]
[Displacement]
[Pakistan]

May 07, 2009Red Cross has said that the US air strikes in Afghanistan’s Farah province on Tuesday killed dozens of civilians including women and children. Later American President Barack Obama described his meeting with Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari as "extraordinarily constructive."
[Afghanistan]
[War]
[Conflict]
[South Asia]

May 12, 2009The emergence of private schools in Afghanistan is a sign of growing stability and optimism for the future. Despite all the shortcomings, the revival of education system in the country is considered one of the biggest achievements of the Karzai government.
[Afghanistan]
[Education]
[South Asia]
[Gender]

May 19, 2009The threat of Taliban has forced several women journalists in Afghanistan and Pakistan to switch to other vocations. Defying the odds, however, are a few brave women who continue to report on the conflict and raise awareness on sensitive issues.
[Human rights]
[Afghanistan]
[Pakistan]
[Gender]
[Journalism]
[South Asia]

Jun 05, 2009Facing insecurity and lack of economic opportunities at home, young Afghans are increasingly resorting to costly and perilous illegal migration to European and other developed countries. A UNHCR report says around 18,000 asylum-seekers have registered in as many as 44 countries in the West last year.
[Afghanistan]
[Employment]
[Migration]
[Safety]
[South Asia]

Jun 11, 2009Afghanistan’s looted and smuggled artifacts seized at London’s Heathrow airport have been sent back to Kabul. The culture ministry has formed a special police force to help the country restore its cultural heritage by protecting it from homegrown looters and getting back its priceless collections from abroad.
[Afghanistan]
[South Asia]
[Art]
[Culture]

Jun 09, 2018Returnees have critical assistance and protection needs and need support to access housing, health services, decent work and often with day to day items to re-build their lives.
[Refugees]
[Rehabilitation]
[Red Cross]
[Afghanistan]

Mar 11, 2011Grappling with an uncertain future, women in Afghanistan have chosen the traditional patriarchal social structure over more contemporary (and radical) notions of gender cased politics and equality in the society. While trying to bring a gender-based revolution, donor nations kept overlooked conventional family dynamics governing the lives of these women.
[Afghanistan]
[Politics]
[South Asia]
[Governance]
[Gender]

Jun 24, 2011As the world awaits the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, its women fear the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban. With no women representations in any of these talks, journalist Jeanne Bryer gets skeptical about women's rights in the future.
[Afghanistan]
[South Asia]
[War]
[Gender]

Aug 23, 2012In a meeting with the Higher Education Minister of Kabul, German ambassador to Afghanistan promised assistance for education facilities in Nangarhar and Kandahar universities.
[Afghanistan]
[Education]

Aug 27, 2012Registration documents of around 1.7 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are set to expire at the end of this year leaving their legal status in jeopardy. The governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have not decided on an arrangement for the refugees beyond that date.
[Afghanistan]
[South Asia]
[Refugees]
[Pakistan]

Aug 28, 2012The oppressed people of Afghanistan, after witnessing three consecutive decades of imposed war and civil instabilities, resorted to migration to meet their daily expenses. This human tragedy is impacting the war-battered country, while hundreds of these migrants are victims of pathetic incidents of torture, and violence in oceans, jungles and detention centers of foreign countries.
[Afghanistan]
[Refugees]
[Migration]
[Conflict]

Aug 30, 2012The Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has ordered all unregistered and illegal Afghan refugees to leave the country by Friday, August 31 or face legal action.
[Human rights]
[Afghanistan]
[Refugees]
[Pakistan]

Aug 31, 2012More than 50,000 Afghan refugees have returned from exile in Pakistan and Iran so far, this year. From January-August, UNHCR helped an average of 213 refugees repatriate every day compared to 190 a year earlier.
[Human rights]
[Afghanistan]
[Refugees]
[Conflict]

Oct 13, 2011Anti-corruption campaigner Eleanor Nichol calls for transparency in governance and aid as Afghanistan gears up to extract $3 trillion worth of minerals over the next three years. Right systems in place can bring revenue benefits to its impoverished populace, she argues.
[Afghanistan]
[Mining]
[Transparency]
[South Asia]

Apr 10, 2013“People have suffered tremendously, escaping the violence and struggling for their lives,” said said Saeed Ullah Khan, country director of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
[South Asia]
[Afghanistan]
[Pakistan]